The Lebanese Hezbollah condemned what it said was the oppression of "scholars and elites in Bahrain", and emphasized that it was in the interest of America and "Israel".
The party said in a statement that it issued, that the arbitrary and political arrest to which scholars, elites and people in Bahrain are subjected, as well as the means of forced deportation, removal of identity, death sentences and imprisonment for hundreds of scholars and citizens, is an unacceptable and politically reprehensible tyranny, which serves only the political interest, both the human interest and